Adventure (slightly) augmented by design
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
How are your New Year’s Resolutions going?
I don’t do NYRs but at the start of each year, I spend some time reflecting on what was…
Minimum viable phone for an adventure?
Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design.
I recently went along to A Night Of Adventure, a collection of talks by adventurers with a particular twist: each talk was accompan…
Good UX flows from thorough user research
I’ve begun reading Roger Deakin’s Wildwood. Early on, he describes a series of school trips to Beaulieu in the New Forest, where he and other children observed and documented the flora and fauna of a 3 by 2 mile area. I’m in awe of what his biolog…
Iteration improves experience of sleep app
In a previous MEX podcast, I mentioned the sleep app Pzizz. It uses ‘psychoacoustics’ to put you to sleep: in simple, layman terms, soothing music that knocks you out.
Part of the 2016 Wayra UK cohort, back when I mentioned them, they had a fre…
Examples of path dependence and where it might lead for smartphones
50 Things That Made The Modern Economy is a BBC World Service podcast. In short snippets of 9 minutes, Tim Harford, the FT journalist, discusses innovations that have played a crucial role in shaping the world today.
Defining user experience in the cold light of day
I went into the kitchen to grab something from the fridge. It was late evening and I made my way through the darkness. Then I opened the fridge door and released the light.
I wondered, at that moment, when it was that the light got into the…
Getting straight to the Punkt
As I slipped the SIM card into the Punkt MP 01, I was fully aware that my other assorted devices still had wifi connectivity. Only if I left them behind would I be truly bereft of the myriad digital services that punctuate my day with information,…
How can UX improvements encourage users to pivot from consuming to creating?
By Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski
This essay is the first in a series on the intersection between digital consumption and creativity by Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski. To follow the forthcoming stream of articles, UI concepts and examples, trac…